National Guard Observing Clinton High School, Clinton, TN, 1956

National Guard Observing Clinton High School, Clinton, TN, 1956 | Credit: Library of Congress

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lesson:
“Hound Dog” and 1950 Race Relations

Grades: High, Middle

Subjects: General Music

How does the story of “Hound Dog” demonstrate music culture’s racial mixing as it differed from mainstream American life in the 1950s?